Community is what you make it. I’ve been fortunate enough to have great neighbors
Kids don’t play outside anymore in the US because streets have been designed primarily for cars.
It’s missing the part where some boomers complained to the city council about noisy delinquents and got a curfew enacted.
This is not the norm. And quite frankly, I’m tired of people stating it as if it was.
BE the change you want in your city. Get informed. Get active, not reactive.
It is 1 billion percent the norm around me. I personally have been fined for three different basketball hoops in two states by boomer ass HoA board members. They (boomers and HoA’s alike) are literally the anti fun police.
Why do you choose to live in an HOA?
Love that you just come in here saying everyone else is wrong, yet not once admit maybe this is a huge problem after experiencing countless examples:).
Same reason I “choose” to work for a shitty employer or do business with a shitty company or live in a shitty city/state/country - sometimes my options are limited and I can’t afford to opt out of society entirely. When it comes to HoAs, in the area I live my options were severely diminished. Choosing a house without one means that I’d just be complaining about some other compromise I felt forced to make.
Most new build neighborhoods in the last 2-3 decades are part of an HOA. Finding a house not contractually part of one is not the norm
It’s not really a choice when accounting for location and affordability. Sometimes it’s HOA or renting forever… or renting in an HOA if you’re truly damned.
